Lower Broadheath is a village and

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in the Malvern Hills district of

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, England. According to the 2011 census it had a population of 1,728. The parish also includes

Upper Broadheath Upper Broadheath is an area in the village of Lower Broadheath. It is not a separate village. Worcestershire, England. It is in the Malvern Hills District Malvern Hills is a local government district in Worcestershire, England. Its council is ...

. The village is about 3 miles north-west of

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. There are many

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in the village, including the Jacomb estate (Jacomb Road, Jacomb Drive, Jacomb Close and Rectory Close). The village has a village hall, church, post office and shop, a village green (containing a football pitch, running track and many children's play areas) and a large village

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. There is also a

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(Broadheath C.E. Primary School). The school contains around 150 children, from the age of four up to eleven. There are also two pubs in the village.

History

Broadheath is the birthplace of the English composer

Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...

. The cottage in which he was born is now the Elgar Birthplace Museum.

References

External links

*
Lower Broadheath official web site.

Retrieved 23 May 2009
The Elgar Birthplace

Listing at the Worcester branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry website
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